Award-winning literature The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult literature. The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe. The National Book Critics Circle Awards are a set of annual American literary awards by the National Book Critics Circle to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English". The Carnegie Medal in Literature, or simply Carnegie Medal, is a British literary award that annually recognizes one outstanding new book for children or young adults. The Michael L. Printz Award is an American Library Association literary award that annually recognizes the "best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit". The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize or Guardian Award is a literary award that annually recognizes one fiction book, written for children by a British or Commonwealth author, published in the United Kingdom during the preceding year. FICTION Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley, Michael L. Printz Winner 2012 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize 2011 Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward, National Book Award 2011 The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes, Man Booker Prize 2011 Ship Breaker by Paolo Baciagalupi, Michael L. Printz Winner 2011 Return to Ribblestrop by Andy Mulligan, Guardian Award 2011 Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai, National Book Award 2011 The Soujourn by Andrew Krivak, National Book Award Finalist 2011 The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht, National Book Award Finalist 2011 The Buddah in the Attic by Julie Otsuka, National Book Award Finalist 2011 Binocular Vision by Edith Peralman, National Book Award Finalist 2011 Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness, Carnegie Medal 2011 Tinkers by Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize 2010 The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson, Man Booker Prize 2010 Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon, National Book Award 2010 Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine, National Book Award 2010 Going Bovine By Libba Bray, Michael L. Printz 2010 Ghost Hunter by Michelle Paver, Guardian Award 2010 The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, Carnegie Medal 2010 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize 2009 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, Man Booker Prize 2009 Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann, National Book Award 2009 Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose, National Book Award 2009 Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta, Michael L. Printz 2009 Exposure by Mal peel, Guardian Award 2009 Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd, Carnegie Medal 2009 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize 2008 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, Man Booker Prize 2008 Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen, National Book Award 2008 What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell, National Book Award 2008 The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean, Michael L. Printz 2008 The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness, Guardian Prize 2008 Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve, Carnegie Medal 2008 The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer Prize 2007 The Gathering by Anne Enright, Man Booker Prize 2007 Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson, National Book Award 2007 The Absoultely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, National Book Award 2007 American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang, Michael L. Printz Winner 2007 Finding Violet Park by Jenny Valentine, Guardian Award 2007 Just in Case by Meg Rosoff, Carnegie Medal 2007 March: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize 2006 The Echo Maker by Richard Powers, National Book Award Winner 2006 The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party by M. T. Anderson, National Book Award 2006 Looking for Alaska by John Green, Michael L. Printz Winner 2006 A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeve, Guardian Award 2006 Tamar by Mal Peet, Carnegie Medal 2005 Gilead: A Novel by Marilyn Robinson, Pulitzer Prize 2005 The Sea: A Novel by John Banville, Man Booker Prize 2005 Europe Central by William T. Vollman, National Book Award Winner 2005 How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff, Michael L. Printz Winner 2005, Guardian Award 2004 The New Policeman by Kate Thompson, Guardian Award 2005 The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall, National Book Award 2005 The Known World by Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize 2004 The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst, Man Booker Prize 2004 The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck, National Book Award 2004 Godless by Pete Hautman, National Book Award 2004 The First Part Last by Angela Johnson, Michael L. Printz Award 2004 Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce, Carnegie Medal 2004 Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides, Pulitzer Prize 2003 Vernon God Little by DBC Pierce, Man Booker Prize 2003 The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard, National Book Award 2003 The Canning Season by Polly Horvath, National Book Award 2003 Postcards from No Man’s Land by Aidan Chambers, Michael L. Printz 2003 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by David Fickling, Guardian Award 2003 A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly, Carnegie Medal 2003 Empire Falls by Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize 2002 Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Man Booker Prize 2002 Three Junes by Julia Glass, National Book Award 2002 The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer, National Book Award 2002 A Step from Heaven by An Na, Michael L. Printz 2002 Thursday’s Child by Sonya Hartnett, Guardian Award 2002 Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech, Carnegie Medal 2002 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize 2001 The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, National Book Award 2001 True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff, National Book Award 2001 Kit’s Wilderness by David Almond, Michael L. Printz 2001 The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland, Guardian Award 2001 The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett, Carnegie Medal 2001 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitizer Prize 2000 In America by Susan Sontag, National Book Award 2000 Monster by Walter Dean Myers, Michael L. Printz 2000 The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson, Guardian Award 2000 The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo, Carnegie Medal 2000 The Hours by Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize 1999 Waiting by Ha Jin, National Book Award Winner 1999 The Sterkarm Handshake by Susan Price, Guardian Award 1999 Postcards from No Man’s Land by Aidan Chambers, Carnegie Medal 1999 American Pastoral by Philip Roth, Pulitzer Prize 1998 Charming Billy by Alice McDermott, National Book Award Winner 1998 Skellig by David Almond, Carnegie Medal 1998 Non-Fiction The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt, National Book Award 2011, Pulitzer Prize 2012 One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing by Diane Ackerman, Pulitzer Prize Finalist 2012 Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men by Mara Hvistendahl, Pulitzer Prize Finalist 2012 The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize 2011 The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr, Pulitzer Prize Finalist 2011 Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne, Pulitzer Prize Finalist 2011 Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff, National Book Critics Circle Award, 2011 The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman, Pulitzer Prize 2010 Just Kids by Patti Smith, National Book Award 2010 Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick, National Book Award Finalist 2010 Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq by John W. Dower, National Book Award Finalist 2010 Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward by Justin Spring, National Book Award Finalist 2010 Every Man in This Village is a Liar: An Education in War by Megan K. Stack, National Book Award Finalist 2010 The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism by Deborah Baker, National Book Award Finalist 2011 Malcolm X: A life of Reinvention by Manning Marable, National Book Award Finalist 2011 Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout, National Book Award Finalist 2011 The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson, National Book Critics Circle Award 2010 Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon, Pulitzer Prize 2009 The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles, National Book Award 2009 The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany & the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander, Pulitzer Prize 2008 The Forever War by Dexter Filkins, National Book Critics Circle Award 2008 The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed, National Book Award 2008 The Looming Tower: AlQaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize 2007 Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner, National Book Award 2007 The Worst, Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan, National Book Award 2006 The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, National Book Award 2005 Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle, National Book Award 2004 Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Calos Eire, National Book Award 2003 Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A.